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The nation is crumbling under the strain of the migrant crisis, and was having to handle it alone as EU member states were too busy bickering to come up with a burden sharing programme, proposed by the European Commission last year.

He told German newspaper Bild: Italy is contributing, but we cannot cope with this burden alone.

Asked if Italy had been abandoned by other European nations, Mr Alfano said: A very clear yes.

The European Commissions proposal would see member states contributing to a refugee resettlement plan and asylum fund.

But governments should be looking to Libya as the only solution to decrease the number of migrants reaching Italy, he said.

The Italian MP did not slam Angela Merkels open door refugee policy, even though it lead to a sharp increase in asylum seekers heading to Europe, saying she "was on the right side of the story in 2015".

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Italy is contributing, but we cannot cope with this burden alone

Angelino Alfano

He said the German Chancellor showed leadership, with strength and courage, and noted now most migrants are coming from African countries rather than the Middle East.

Alfano dismissed Austrias threats of sending troops to the border with Italy to stop migrants crossing the border.

He said: This is pure election campaigning, which we do not take seriously.

Our borders are clearly sealed. It is impossible for the migrants to travel to other countries.

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In recent days, Libya banned foreign ships from a stretch of water off its coast, prompting many NGOs to halt their search and rescue missions.

The move was welcomed by the Italian government.

Libya alleged some charities were facilitating illegal migration and working with traffickers to pick up migrants.

One charity, Sea Eye, branded the ban an explicit threat against the private NGOs and the ban would put many lives at risk.

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The warning comes after 69 Iraqi migrants in a yacht were detained on Sunday after being spotted by a coastguard patrol ship in Romanian territorial waters, about 10 nautical miles from the port of Mangalia.

Bulgarian news agency Novinite reports that the yacht was sailing under the Turkish flag piloted by Bulgarian and Cypriot traffickers.

Romanian authorities note that 2,500 people have been caught trying to cross the countrys borders illegally in the first six months of this year a five-fold increase on last year. Frontex figures show that only one person attempted to illegally enter the European Union via the Black Sea in the whole of 2016.

The growth of the route is a result of the restrictions on other routes in the Mediterranean.

The Eastern Mediterranean route (between Turkey and Greece across the Aegean Sea) was restricted last year following the EU-Turkey migrant deal. The Balkan route, which then took migrants out of EU nation Greece through Macedonia and Serbia (both non-EU countries) before re-entering the EUs free movement Schengen zone in Hungary, was closed after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn erected a border wall with Serbiaand increased other security measures.

The Central Mediterranean migrant route has also recently been restricted following moves by the Libyan navy to patrol its coast and the Italian governments implementation of a migrant rescue NGO code of conduct. The moves saw at least three NGOs pull search and rescue operations from the waters off the coast of North Africa over the weekend.

Captain Georgi Penev, chief of staff of the Bulgarian navy, told The Times: Migration [into Bulgaria] is mostly coming through the land border [from Turkey] at the moment.

But we could see an increase on the sea route because of the crackdown in the Aegean, Capt. Penev added.

In addition to sea and land incursions into Bulgaria and Romania, which both border the Black Sea, Spain, on the Eastern Mediterranean route from Morocco, is becoming the fastest growing route for illegal migration as migrants consider it safer than the central route from Libya.

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European

Italy simply cannot do what an independent country should be able to always do: defend its territory from illegal invasion.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 11:04 AM CEST

Italy is very corrupted country and human smuggling is even more important to mafia than smuggling drugs. Now Italy wants to collect money from human smuggling and then send the economic immigrants to other countries. It would be foolish for other countries to accept this corruption and abusing of them.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 11:32 AM CEST

@European/Finnish guy

Taken together what you are saying is that however you look at it Italy is indeed shafted!

Posted on 8/14/17 | 11:36 AM CEST

Ive noticed a pattern in Southern European member states and that is no matter how many millions we provide them they still think they lack solidarity. It is quite outrageous they should show more grattitude , Europe is not some dumpster that you can throw your garbage into. The same reason the inflow of migrants is unsustainable for Italy is why it is unsustainable for Europe. So the solution cannot be to just spread out the malaise but to reform Europs asylum policies to one that is based on a regional and first safe country concept. Where money spent on refugees actually reaches the victims of war and persecution and not opportunistic men looking for a better life. Italy should do like Greece and keep migrants offshore so they cannot reach the rest of Europe illegally. Then process and settle them in third countries in their region of origin.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 11:53 AM CEST

European

Bearing in mind your derogatory remarks about Britain wanting to be an independent country again and your passionate defence of all things European I can only assume your account has been hacked

Posted on 8/14/17 | 12:33 PM CEST

@tony

Aint no accounts here bud..

Posted on 8/14/17 | 1:18 PM CEST

other Tony

So youre not paying politico 300$ a month for an account here?

Posted on 8/14/17 | 1:53 PM CEST

@roland Could you please tell us how many millions did you provide to italy? Could you eventually answer? I know about some 60 bns paid by the italian taxpayers to rescue greece and other countries and largely gone to help french and german banks exposed with loans there. Then I know of more money paid by european taxpayers, among which italians, to fund a deal that merkel did with erdogan to stop flows of refugees that didnt involve italy, nothing similar happened for flows from lybia. Could you please point us once and for all which are the generous funds for which we should be grateful?

Posted on 8/14/17 | 2:07 PM CEST

@Filippo

Probably worth remembering that it was BNP-Paribas which triggered the crash 10 years ago when it suspended payments on a couple of its funds because the assets were worth less than their liabilities

Posted on 8/14/17 | 2:14 PM CEST

I suspect the problem was expecting EU to be able to organise a response in the first place. Believing a trading body, with 27 members, all having a different take on this, could come up with a workable solution was never going to work.

Brussels should have said, from the outset, it was not capable of dealing with a huge migrant crisis and stayed out of the disaster.

Countries could then have focused on UN and other agencies to create a workable response.

Problem is EU likes to be the middle man, seen to be vital on the world stage, and will not miss an opportunity to interfere even when it can only make a big mess worse.

It should stick to what it is there for, to enforce trade rules and regulations occasionally, so business do not run amok and try and poison us all with dodgy food and polluting cars.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 2:35 PM CEST

Why does not stop Italy to treat illegal economic migrants as refugees? Asking help from EU for incompetence?

Posted on 8/14/17 | 2:46 PM CEST

Dear Angelino, it works like this: when individuals or even governments act against the will and interests of their people, assisting them would not be called solidarity; it would be complicity. You and your Renziites have taken away Italy from those born there for millennia and given it to illiterate chancers exploiting your weakness and ideological narcissism. Dont even dream about us suffering for your mistakes, or because of the apathy of the Italian electorate in general.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 5:04 PM CEST

@real tony

Good lord, no. I just wonder why they make it so easy to create sock puppet accounts, and masquerade as someone else. Seems like a recipe for vitrolic discourse and divisi

ah ok, I get it now.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 5:27 PM CEST

Hey Italy, arent you aware that Germany is in election campaign ? Wait until the fall, then the German left wing media apparatus will push for everybody welcome 2

burden-sharing mechanism Thats getting ridiculous. Can these politicians explain how this would work ? How will you keep the migrants redistributed to Romania in Romania ? By borders and walls ? Upps in this case youd go against youre own narrative.

Where are migrants taken by Estonia and Czech ? all of them in Germany and Seden, none stayed over there.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 5:34 PM CEST

Talk to Libya yourselves Italy. They need to stand on their own two feet and resolve the problem as they see fit for their country!

Italy is the third biggest country in EU after UK leaves. This position is the position of France when UK was in EU. (germany 1. UK 2. France 3rd.)

Start acting like it!

Posted on 8/14/17 | 6:10 PM CEST

let me explain Italys migration story very clear

1. Italy is ruled by a SOCIALIST government since 2013. since then the italian government supported NGOs & helped them brind in EU as many so called refugees as possible.

2. when Italys SOCIALIST overnment saw that their plan of having a EU wide asylum policy has failed and that the italian people are turning against them they decided to stop all this.

they could have done it since 2014 but they did not want to

Posted on 8/14/17 | 8:11 PM CEST

To Italians, socialist leaders: Guys, you just happen to be on the wrong side of Europe: you are not Poland or Scandinavia. Your are within reach. You are in the first line. Find solutions. Geography is nobodys fault. For decades you have ignored the rule of law and deployed corruption at all levels. Surely migrants can be used by your mafias.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 9:38 PM CEST

Vishnou:

Poland is also on the first line. You probably dont know, but Poland has got borders not only with EU members, but also with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 10:32 PM CEST

To assume that Europe is responsible for how the African countries treat their own citizens is ridiculous. How about how the North Korean government treats its citizens? How about how Saudia Arabia denies women their rights? How about how China instituted a one child policy? I could go on and on.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 10:41 PM CEST

Filippo:

Could you remind me who was bombing Libya and is responsible for current state of Libya, for fallen Libya and for current flow of migrants from Africa? Italy is one of the main black characters of that state. You were one of world players that destroyed Libya, Libya that was stopping flow of migrants from central Africa to Europe. Till now, for many years your government was doing NOTHING to stop that flow. EU countries are not responsible for your idiocy. You are responsible for that.

Posted on 8/14/17 | 11:00 PM CEST

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So heres an interesting thing. Footage so striking that even the BBC has run with it. This is the film of a migrant boat landing on a beach in the south of Spain. In recent years for a whole variety of reasons, Spain has avoided the worst of the migrant crisis. Perhaps thats why these images have broken through where the daily images from Italy this summer have not.

Anyway, its hard to think of a more vivid encapsulation of the ongoing suicide of our continent than this one. If you believe Angela Merkel, the European Commission and most of our political class, the people storming that Spanish beach are doctors, engineers and physicists fleeing the terrible civil war in Morocco, and just desperate to lend their skills to our continent.

The reality (as I recently described at book length) is somewhat different from that dream. These young men from a range of sub-Saharan African countries have come to Europe for a hundred different reasons and they will stay in Europe. Most will try to move northwards. And along the way the only employment most of them will find will be working with illegal gangs made up of people from their countries of origin.

Meanwhile, those people on the beach in Spain can happily stand for all the rest of Europe. They want to have a nice time, the sun is still shining and its all just a bit of a bummer that another boatload of people would illegally break into your continent while youre working on your tan. But someone else will deal with them, wont they? Except they wont. Its a myth, like the idea that it doesnt matter because its just one more boat and the continent can easily take in this boat. Like the ones before it. And the endless boats to come.

Elsewhere the Italian authorities have been making more discoveries about the collusion between the smugglers networks and some of the NGOs operating in the Mediterranean. All just another story in the strange suicide of our continent.

My own view is that the effects of a borderless continent (borderless at its external borders where anyone can just get on a boat and arrive as well as borderless within) are already being felt. A lot of the public know this, but there just arent enough people in power who want to admit to it, let alone tackle it. And so for a while to come our politicians will continue to try to find a way around the consequences of their evasions, half-truths and untruths. They will continue to witter on about diversity, for instance as though we just need more and more of the stuff and that it is just an endless good in itself.

On which note, whatever else you may say about the latest gang of child-rapists to have been sentenced in the UK (this time in Newcastle) nobody could claim that it was boringly mono-cultural. The Newcastle rape-gang included men not just from Pakistan and Bangladesh but also from Iraq, India, Iran and Turkey. Whichis a fine demonstration of the diversity which our continent has welcomed in and a model of the integration which our society is trying to make possible.

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The reality of Europe's migrant crisis - Spectator.co.uk (blog)

Approximately 21 million around the globe are victims of modern slavery, a number that has grown significantly over the last year as a result of the escalating migrant crisis in Europe, reveals an annual study from global risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.

According to the Modern Slavery Index (MSI) now in its second year modern slavery risks have risen in nearly three quarters of the 28 member states of the European Union. The five EU countries posing the highest risk are Romania, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Bulgaria key points of entry into the region for migrants who are extremely vulnerable to exploitation.

The research, which assesses 198 countries on the strength of their laws, the effectiveness of their enforcement and the severity of violations, shows drops in the scores for 20 countries across the bloc.

The slavery situation in Romania is deemed as deteriorating faster than any country globally, with it falling 56 places in the ranking to 66th highest risk. Romania and Italy (ranked 133rd), which fell 16 places, have the worst reported violations in the EU, including severe forms of forced labor, such as servitude and trafficking.

The International Organization for Migration estimates that over 100,000 migrants have entered Europe by sea in 2017; 85 percent of which have landed in Italy. Arrivals in Greece (129th) have fallen dramatically since the 2016 signing of the EU-Turkey Refugee Agreement, but the country, which dropped 17 places in the index, is host to significant numbers of migrants and remains a key destination for human trafficking.

According to Verisk Maplecroft, the presence of these vulnerable migrant populations in the primary countries of arrival is a key contributor for increases in slavery across multiple sectors in the region, such as agriculture, construction and services.

Due to the geographic shift in migrant sea arrivals, the report suggests that the risk of modern slavery is likely to worsen in Italy over the next year, with agriculture being a major sector of concern.

The migrant crisis has increased the risk of slavery incidents appearing in company supply chains across Europe, said Sam Haynes, Senior Human Rights Analyst at Verisk Maplecroft. It is no longer just the traditional sourcing hotspots in the emerging economies that businesses should pay attention to when risk assessing their suppliers and the commodities they source.

Even the EUs biggest economies are not immune to the rise in slavery risk. Germany and the UK have seen slight negative shifts in their scores, taking them just over the low risk threshold into the medium risk category of the index. New data has revealed gaps in the UKs labor inspectorate, while Germany has experienced an uptick in recorded trafficking and servitude violations.

Outside the EU, Turkey experienced the worlds second largest drop in the Modern Slavery Index, falling from 110th to 58th most at risk and slipping into the high risk category. The influx of 100,000s of refugees from the Syrian civil war, combined with Turkeys restrictive work permit system, has led to thousands becoming party of the informal workforce. Policing labor violations is also no longer a priority for the government, which is focused on the political crackdown, further adding to the risk.

US MSI performance was also mediocre with a medium risk ranking of 135, dangerously close to the high risk threshold. The ranking is partially due to a recent crackdown on undocumented migrants coming to the US.

Hardline strategies such as deportation and immigration bans, however, do not offer effective or sustainable solutions for curbing forced labor and human trafficking. According to Alexandra Channer, Principal Human Rights Analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, eliminating modern slavery will require going to the root of the problem and addressing the drivers of illegal immigration. Failure to do so could further aggravate the problem.

Policies that increase the costs of trafficking, such as tighter enforcement of deportation rules and restricting the protections offered by sanctuary cities, will push undocumented migrants further into the hands of the criminal gangs involved in border trafficking and the procurement of undocumented workers, Channer told Quartz ahead of the 2017 MSI release.

Migrants will be ever more dependent on trafficking networks for survival and fewer will report entrapment and labor abuses to the authorities for fear of deportation. Increases in such violations pose a risk to companies sourcing goods from the US, especially from the agricultural sector, as well as within the services industry.

In Asia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand the regions manufacturing hubs all landed in the Modern Slavery Indexs extreme or high risk categories. Thailand and India both demonstrated significant improvement, thanks to increases in the enforcement of slavery related laws, but slavery still remains a significant problem. In India, severe forms of slavery are common in construction, brick kilns, garment production, manufacturing and farming; while in Thailand, the worst abuses still frequently occur in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, fishing and rubber production.

Intensive government activity will be required in India and Thailand if these green shoots of progress are to turn into a positive trajectory, said Hannah Broscombe, Asia Supply Chain Analyst at Verisk Maplecroft.

China, ranked 21st in the index, remains firmly entrenched among the worst performing countries in the extreme risk category. North Korea, Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, DR Congo, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Eritrea and Turkmenistan are rated by the Modern Slavery Index as posing the highest risk of all countries measured.

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